The Interaction of Digital Technology and Literacy Practices in Nuosu Script, China

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dc.contributor.authorWalters, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-03T00:19:09Z
dc.date.available2024-12-03T00:19:09Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractDigital technology enables new forms of textual communications, linguistic creativity, and cultural empowerment for many local language communities (Li, Brar, and Roihan 2021). This study uncovers how Nuosu people, a thriving minority ethnic group in southwest China, choose to use digital technologies for reading and writing their traditional script. The data, part of a larger qualitative study that revealed how Nuosu people conceptualize and practice literacy (Walters 2021), were collected utilizing semi-structured interviews with 22 Nuosu adults. Findings show that the Nuosu primarily use digital language technologies for Nuosu literary and artistic expressions, which carry knowledge crucial to their identity. They also use these technologies for teaching and learning their script, not for interpersonal communication or majority-language domains. The use of digital Nuosu in literary domains aligns with their centuries-old practice in which religious specialists (bimo) use Nuosu script for ritual writings and preserving traditional oral literature in the form of epic poems and proverbs. The Nousu case suggests that literacy patterns once established are deeply held and not easily influenced by changes in modality.
dc.format.extent17 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10524/52533
dc.subjectNuosu Yi script
dc.subjectlocal language literacy
dc.subjectdigital language support
dc.subjectdigital language ascent
dc.subjectcultural and artistic expression
dc.subject.languagecodeiii
dc.titleThe Interaction of Digital Technology and Literacy Practices in Nuosu Script, China
dc.typeResearch article
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prism.endingpage170
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage154
prism.volume17

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